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Directed by | Chandru S. S. Vasan |
Produced by | S. S. Vasan |
Based on | Samsaram (1950) |
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M. K. Radha Pushpavalli Kumari Vanaja Sriram M. S. Sundari Bai T. R. Ramachandran D. Balasubramaniam R. Balasubramaniam Master Sethu Ratnapapa |
Music by | Emani Sankara Sastri |
Edited by | Umanath |
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Country | India |
Language | Tamil Hindi |
Samsaram (Wife) is a 1951 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Chandru and produced by S. S. Vasan. A remake of the 1950, Telugu film of the same name it features M. K. Radha, Pushpavalli, Kumari Vanaja, Sriram, M. S. Sundari Bai, T. R. Ramachandran, D. Balasubramaniam, R. Balasubramaniam, Master Sethu and Ratnapapa. It was simultaneously filmed in Hindi as Sansaar, which Vasan directed.
A struggling clerk lives with his wife and two children. Their blissful life is threatened with the arrival of his scheming mother and sister. A short time later, the clerk disappears, abandoning his family, and his brother comes to their rescue. Exploiting the fragile situation, mischief makers suggest an immoral relationship between the clerk's brother and wife. Frustrated, the clerk's wife sends her two children to beg on the streets. Several years later, the elder of the two children, now working in a mill, meets a bearded beggar who, unknown to him, is actually his father. He obtains his father a job in the mill, and the family later reunites.
Compiled from Film News Anandan's database and Film Credits.
S. S. Vasan, the owner of Gemini Studios, screened the Telugu film Samsaram for his staff, family and friends. Impressed with the film, he bought the rights to remake it in two languages: Tamil and Hindi. The Tamil remake shared its title with the Telugu film, while the Hindi version was titled Sansar. Both versions were launched simultaneously; Chandru, the chief editor of Gemini, directed the Tamil version. Because South Indians actors of the era could not speak Hindi fluently, Vasan had the voices of the South Indian cast dubbed for Sansar, which he directed.